flatus - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • pass: Throughout this time she had however been passing flatus, was not vomiting and had been eating and drinking normally.

Adjective modifier

  • excessive: The usual symptoms of lactose intolerance include loose stools, intermittent abdominal distention, colic and excessive flatus after lactose ingestion.

Modifies a noun

  • vocis: Roscelin had been famously derided by Anselm for arguing that universals were mere flatus vocis, a pun even in Anselm's day.

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